Gone Bowling

This year I'm in the Newspaper/Journalism class at school, and I just wrote my favorite article so far about college bowl games. The paper just came out today, and here it is:

Get Out the Bowling Shoes

The regular college football season is over; it's time for the controversial, big-money Bowl Championship Series. The National Championship will be played at the home of the Miami Dolphins, and the four other BCS bowls will be spread from Pasadena to New Orleans. The Rose Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, and the National Championship, will host the so-called "best teams" in the country to determine the final national rankings starting January 1st with the Rose and Orange Bowls. Playing in the Rose Bowl is fifth-ranked USC against number eight Penn State. 19th-ranked Virginia Tech will face 12th place Cincinnati in the Orange Bowl. The sixth ranked Utah Utes will play in the Sugar Bowl against number four Alabama, who was ranked number one for much of the season. The Fiesta Bowl will host number ten Ohio State and number three Texas. The National Championship will feature the Okalahoma Sooners and Florida Gators, number one and two in the BCS, respectively.
Senior Michelle Teng thinks BCS stands for, "Big Corrupt Stinkers! It shouldn't just be based on a bunch of computers; they should have playoffs." Senior Jeff Gassman said,"The BCS is retarded." Junior Tanner Brown said,"I don't like the BCS at all. It's not fair because it's always the same teams."
The BCS grabs special attention close to home this year, as the University of Utah went undefeated and earned an at-large bid. The whole Mountain West Conference will get a part of the millions of dollars of revenue from the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans. Some Timpanogos students don't think Utah has a very good chance against the Alabama Crimson Tide. Jeff said, "I think Utah will get detroyed but I hope it's a good game." Tanner said,"Utah is going down. They have never played against a good team like that, and Alabama's defense is going to shut down Utah."
Brigham Young University also earned a chance to play in the post-season, even if it isn't a part of the BCS. The Cougars will play for the fourth-straight year in the Las Vegas Bowl. BYU will play the Arizona Wildcats for the third time in three seasons.
Michelle said,"I'm most looking forward to the Rose Bowl and the Vegas Bowl because I love USC and BYU!" Jeff said,"I'm excited for the Florida and Oklahoma game."
Many critics of the BCS feel the current system is no indicator of the best team in the country. A playoff system has been proposed, where the top 16 teams would play up to four games. Each win would move the team a step closer to becoming the real number one team. This seems like the best method, but the executives at the top make too much money to want to change the system. Until then, no team can truly claim the title of "best team in the country".

I had a lot of fun writing it, especially discovering that most people feel the same way about the Utah bowl game--they're going to get eaten alive!:)